Stillness Quotes

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.

This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.

There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.

Stillness is the ruler of haste.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.

The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

What will happen in your life if you accept the invitation to stillness cannot be known ... what can be known is you will have a larger capacity to truly meet whatever appears.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.

The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

Slow is fast, gentle is powerful and stillness moves mountains

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.

Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.

In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

The realms of light exist everywhere forever. But it is up to an individual to raise their mind to a level of stillness at which they can perceive these most beautiful realms of light.

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

That stillness and vastness that enables the Universe to be, is not just out there in space...it is also within you.

There’s a place inside of you where you can retreat and enjoy perfect stillness.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.

Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.

Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.

Let your mind and soul be at ease. Don't grasp and grab for the magic and miracles. When you reside in that place of stillness, the joy, miracles, and magic you're seeking will find you.

Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

Activity conquers coldness. Stillness conquers heat.

Stillness is your essential nature.

An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.

Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.

The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.

The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost.

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

Soundwaves. It’s the difference between one stillness and another stillness.

Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.